Are you serious? I’m fed up of the Brit-dissing going on on this site - none of us would make tea in a microwave. Heat it up after forgetting about it, maybe, but microwave tea making is for weirdos.
Well then, here is more controversy . I MAKE MY TEA IN THE COFFEE POT. ( don't @ me lmao) I mean its boiled water and a tea bag. what's the big deal? lmao , the things people find to be upset by is ridiculous. there are much bigger fish to fry ( one named Conald comes to mind)
I worked in a hospital in the 1970s, and the Ward Assistant would put water, tea, milk and sugar in the kettle, boil it and serve it to the patients. No one ever complained. Of course, it was psychiatric hospital.
When I was a teenager I occasionally got the urge when driving down a fast A road to swerve into the oncoming traffic to see what happened. I have a similar feeling that makes me want to try this now.. .
Every single home in the UK owns a kettle, it is one the essential kitchen item most won't be without. We Brits NEVER make tea in a microwave..... Every, although, some might, reheat a cup that has gone cold.
Oh, you've done it now! Those are fighting words in the UK. They will send swans after you if you're not careful!
I am a recent tea convert, and it's true, you need and electric kettle or it just doesn't come out right. It seems silly, but the details matter with tea ☕
Who TF makes tea in a microwave? Everyone knows microwaves are for heating your tea up when it’s sat there for 10 mins too long getting cold while you scroll on your phone
I get it. There was a research paper that said the perfect cup of tea would include a pinch of salt. Gotta say I was disappointed in the brit that wrote it.
I saw that one too, can't say I've tried it yet but salt is a flavour enhancer so it might just work. I just don't want to ruin a good brew trying to find out!
If someone came into my flat and did this, id frankly have to report them to the police. They’re clearly American or an alien and I’m taking no chances of having an American in my home
As an an American wholly committed to preserving the British Standard Method and living amonst these microwaving heathens, I can assure you that it's truly cringe inducing to witness.
There’s more than one lol! I don’t even own a microwave but make lots of tea. Even when I did have one, I never heated drinking water in it. It’s just not the same.
Not only faster, a kettle heats the water uniformly so it doesn't release as much dissolved oxygen as a microwave. This is key to achieving the right flavor. The lack of DO is also the reason reheated cuppa tastes like a wet ashtray. (Sorry to geek out.)
Well making tea in the microwave is an art form. Luckily, everyone who could make it that way have either been a) exiled to America as punishment or b) executed in the tower of London.
We hardly ever drink tea in Britain anymore, after dumping all of our reserves into the Thames as a protest about being expected to pay for armed force to defend us against angry Welshmen.
Why would you remove tea from tests? The structure of the caffeine is similar, but still significantly different enough to warrant its own control group.
I mean even hot and cold brews are different eno-
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Oh... He's just... So NO abstract sense of humor? Okay.
*Returns*
Oh shit. Please do NOT take this wrong, I actually get where you're coming from now. Just noticed the Australia thing. I'm being serious. Humor IS just different there. I literally TRY to watch some of my favorite comedians perform in Australia because y'all are just DIFFERENT. Not BAD. Different.
And we or I do anyways have pretty thick skins. I came here from the US in 1980 and they took me down to the bowling club and proceeded to rip shit out of me to see if I could take it. They failed. I’d just come off a 5 year stint in the US Navy where that was our day job
But seriously dude, you killed your own comment by simply acknowledging that it WAS a joke. If you recognize THAT MUCH you know enough to either laugh or just shrug it off and move on with your life.
Try telling a comedian in a club "that's not funny". See where it gets you.
So I stumbled into a club? Well Excuuuuze me. Half the posts seemingly took it seriously. They could have been joking too I suppose.. I could be joking 🙃 as well. Who the fuck nose
Lol. Well for starters, his know the show you're coming to. This is gails whole schtick. Obviously false posts to rule up people who don't know her. (Welcome to the club I guess 😄)
No one who knows her is taking her seriously. This gag is like 10 years old. They're just laying bait for the gullible.
I recently answered an inquiry from a stunned British lady who was told Americans don't have electric kettles. She wanted to know how we made a cup of tea.
My friend Mandy laughed and laughed when I said 'I haven't got a kettle.' Then I said 'no, really, I haven't got one. My induction hob boils water faster than a kettle would, so I just use that.'
I don't drink tea anymore, but when I did, I just used my microwave. I tried to explain that in the US, electric tea kettles are not that easy to locate.
I dunno, you may be British, but both the US Embasy to the UK and the famous documentary Broadchurch agree with Gail, so I think I’m going to trust the experts here.
They’re the US experts on the British. Are you telling me not to trust my own government, a documentary (Broadchurch) released by the BBC, *and* beloved author Gail Simone?
Heck, what proof do you have a that you’re British?
"pulling your leg" means "relaying accurate information" in British. They are *not* like us, and it gets very confusing. Here's another interesting fact: In Britain they make tea in the microwave, Americans would be dismayed if you tried that. We use a kettle here.
Only Americans make tea in the microwave
Kettles take too long with 110-120 volts
It's 230v in UK and 240 in Australia
They come to the boil much faster
Lady, I have read so e answers here and I cannot stress enough how much I love to see you fishing!!
Also, looks like this time you've catch an entire Wales
Okay I get that this post is supposed to be a joke. No one is microwaving tea. But honest question, is there a difference between using kettle heated vs microwave heated water to make tea?
I imagine kettle will have different taste depending on how often it gets cleaned cause of mineral deposits, whereas microwave most people use clean glass/ceramic
One of my sisters used an electric kettle and the other heats water in a pot on the stove. They both look down on me for heating water in the microwave 😂
Why would the British who are known for their tea even think of ruining a perfectly good cup of tea by using a microwave to make it? That's just plain wrong!!
"British Method"? No, really, it's not. We use a teapot or even a teabag in a mug - but in a microwave? Who told you that was a thing? They're pulling your leg. 🤷♂️🤣
Do it once a day, sometimes twice a day works perfect for me..
Fifth of a mug of milk
Add a tea bag (Yorkshire obvs)
Add a little water about 30ml
Put in microwave for about 1:40 (I have a 900w, but I swear it's less, built in, Neff, present from sis)
Leave for 2/3 mins
Boil some water and top up.
Wax lady will have you in full doggy style tearing into parts of you no one has seen and ask things like “so you not missing mom when you go back in london?”
Being Irish of the northern variety, the person performing said sacrilege would be instantly ejected from the kitchen. With immediate investigations at the crime scene.
The proper way to make tea is to touch the replicator pad and say in a clear voice: "Earl Grey, Hot" Then carefully lift it from the replicator and enjoy.
One time by mistake and without noticing I dropped a single brussel sprout in the cup while making air fryer tea and it came out so so crispy! Now my kids ask for brussie tea at least once a week.
Do you actually make the tea itself in the microwave or do you just use the microwave to boil the water? I only use the microwave to heat the water, have I been doing it wrong?
Well okay a lot makes sense to me now. I could never understand why boiling water in a microwave versus boiling water in a kettle was so controversial. But if you're actually making the tea in these devices perhaps that's a different story.
I'd love to but I don't have 10 minutes to wait for the water to boil on the stove top so I use the microwave and have boiling water in 3 minutes or less
Yes, there is nothing wrong about boiling water in the microwave, and while tea bags are suboptimal compared to loose tea steeped in a properly preheated teapot with water at just the exactly correct temp for that tea variety,
you're doing fine.
I was about to say the same thing--I've read and heard many a narrative of disdain and disapproval about using the microwave to make tea. My dear, just use a teapot. It's delightful as well as the "correct" way to do it. :D
It’s less about temperature as aeration. The more oxygenated the drink is the more we perceive flavour. The process of boiling however partially degassed the water removing some of the resolved oxygen. When you reboil water the drink tastes noticeably flat. Fresh water in the kettle every time.
It'll be because you used a flavoursome tea like lipton. When you microwave you need to use something ordinary like Yorkshire tea. That's why the English grow tea there, its kind of the scrag end of the country so using it for low grade tea is about the best that can be done with the land
Reheating it for a minute or so after forgetting you've made it, possibly (but even then it's over brewed - I only still drink it because I'm a scrooge!)
When my British human worked with some Americans in the UAE, she caught them boiling noodles inside the kettle in the staff room. Kettle instructions had to be displayed after that. And all the British staff bought their own secret kettle that they hid from the Americans.
Remember, we colonists threw cases on tea into Boston Harbor in protest a long time ago :)
Another thought..,
I never knew there were so many kinds of tea🙂
Just as the rest of the world has of Americans eh! I've been to Europe where an American in line argues with waitress in front of me only to get his meal 15 mins later okay lol.
Literally no one in the UK would make tea in a Microwave. We wouldn’t even warm tea if it went cold like that. We would make a fresh cup with boiling water. Even using Tea bags didn’t really catch on til the late 80s. And we don’t leave the bag in the cup either, unless it’s yucky herbal tea
Well tbh I haven’t had any since I was made to drink raspberry leaf tea when I was pregnant in 1989. But it was really horrible. The worst part was that it smelt lovely but tasted like brackish water
Twingings just started selling vanilla and peppermint herbal tea over here in the US. It is lovely when made with fresh water, and absolutely no salt. If they sell Tazo tea where you are, get the passion flavor. It's delicious and packed with vitamin C from the hibiscus flower & rose hips
What about those electric kettles they have in hotels over there? Does the kettle
need to be one that heats
up on the stove or can it be an electric kettle? Asking for a friend. (Fun fact: I didn’t know electric kettles existed until I visited the UK🤪🫣)
We've got an electric kettle, and I've never been to the UK. Have had it for years - very handy, especially with our glass stove top. This means we don't have to liberate the stove top from the protector for every cuppa. We've already broken one stove top, don't plan on a second!
Heck with microwaves and kettles. The best tea is made in a glass jar sitting in the sunlight for a few hours on a pleasant summer day. Possibly with some sprigs of fresh mint thrown into the water with the tea bags.
Any place I've ever been in the UK that had a bed also had a kettle. And because their power is different (I don't begin to understand that) the water boils way faster than in the US. Every morning as I wait on my kettle, I envy the UK!
As a nearly 60 year old Brit, I can honestly say that making a cup of tea in the microwave has never entered my head, but thanks for the advice not to bother. I'll stick to my kettle 👍
I had two British roommates 12 years ago, and those silly fucks put their tea bags right in the electric kettle 😑 why do they hate tea so much, it's like they hate-consume it
Excuse me?? Who told you we make tea in a microwave?
It has to be a kettle, and nossir not an electric one but a whistler on a flat iron stove (wood-fuelled).
And absolutely NO to bags
Harrumphh
Oh they couldn’t make tea for shit. They used way too much water for the amount of tea they had, they didn’t boil it and it was salty. Terrible tea making skills on show.
i prefer the method of a taking a container and putting a teabag or two in it and letting it sit in the fridge and letting it slooooooooooooowwwwww brew for a killer iced tea. it works really good with fruit teas esp.
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It was ... suboptimal.
I'm not a tea drinker myself, but my friends and family are split on this.
No matter what, I always seen to get it wrong when I make it for someone else.
(Ok, hands up, running out of breakfast tea and adding in earl grey to make up the numbers was probably a mistake)
I think not, nationhood stripped if you dared to do this.
I am a recent tea convert, and it's true, you need and electric kettle or it just doesn't come out right. It seems silly, but the details matter with tea ☕
🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
... Unless I must be a fake brit then ...
Me, I use a kettle, warm the pot, three spoons of leaves and leave to steep for 4 mins.
I mean even hot and cold brews are different eno-
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Oh... He's just... So NO abstract sense of humor? Okay.
*Returns*
Nevermind!
Normal flerfs have to do Olympic tier mental gymnastics to try to believe themselves. Aussies? They have to be REALITY BENDING.
Try telling a comedian in a club "that's not funny". See where it gets you.
No one who knows her is taking her seriously. This gag is like 10 years old. They're just laying bait for the gullible.
She was AMAZED.
I ABSOLUTELY know that Brits don't make tea in a microwave.
Try watching the scene in Paddington where he has tea with the Queen.
Heck, what proof do you have a that you’re British?
I don't know who fired the first shot
@gailsimone.bsky.social went to war with the Brits
I'm confused, but I'm here for it
Kettles take too long with 110-120 volts
It's 230v in UK and 240 in Australia
They come to the boil much faster
https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c?si=Mo1vgOJjDy_V_F2g
Maybe I just don’t drink enough tea.
Also, looks like this time you've catch an entire Wales
Eww makes way better tea in the kettle.
Fifth of a mug of milk
Add a tea bag (Yorkshire obvs)
Add a little water about 30ml
Put in microwave for about 1:40 (I have a 900w, but I swear it's less, built in, Neff, present from sis)
Leave for 2/3 mins
Boil some water and top up.
Our kettle would faint!
My Aunt from London, always used a teapot which she warmed before making tea.
This is just classic "rage bait for engagement."
I'm blocking the sad twat.
High tech stuff.
you're doing fine.
Just don't put the tea bag in while nuking it.
His life was doomed....
That said my mum insists on Nescafé I stand and cafe mate 🤢 I keep trying to give her a nespresso machine. She refuses!
I broke free….it is possible 🤣
If someone offers me instant now
Never heard of it in my life.
Reheating it for a minute or so after forgetting you've made it, possibly (but even then it's over brewed - I only still drink it because I'm a scrooge!)
Went back in time
Another thought..,
I never knew there were so many kinds of tea🙂
is one of the greatest inventions of all time,
No I will not define “Obdurate” for you.
It was a comics reference
Glad to be connected
need to be one that heats
up on the stove or can it be an electric kettle? Asking for a friend. (Fun fact: I didn’t know electric kettles existed until I visited the UK🤪🫣)
And yes, I own one 😆
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Tea and dogs.
You can get away with anything else with the Brits.
Just don’t insult their Tea making rituals - which microwaving tea falls squarely into. 😂😂😂
As in Hung, Drawn and Quartered.
😉
Not on your nelly!! (A very British retort)
When we wanted to expand our repertoire of Yorkshire profanities, we'd wind my stepdad up: saying the tea was being microwaved was the fastest way!
As far as I remember it’s kettle.
Milk in your tea cup so it doesn’t stain the cup then tea and water
I let her keep it when we broke up.
That is a criminal offence here in Blighty.
It has to be a kettle, and nossir not an electric one but a whistler on a flat iron stove (wood-fuelled).
And absolutely NO to bags
Harrumphh
She loves Cyclops and knows that Brits love making tea in the microwave.
Therefore i don’t need to express my opinion as a fraction
only a bot more than two large mugs a shot, but fast
no bots in my kitchen